Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈 @NfNitLoop@mastodon.social

@HerraBRE

This isn't random people saying "oh noes! ads!"

Google, without warning or explanation, took down entire major channels full of open content. They didn't say how to get the content back.

Then G said it was just a bug.

Then, days after that, G demanded that the channels monetise their content (which may break the content's licence).

This opaque and weird behaviour is caused by Google's monopoly on discovery. They are too powerful to care any more.

https://www.blender.org/media-exposure/youtube-blocks-blender-videos-worldwide/

things that YouTube actively blocks : popular content from creators that have made the decision to intentionally not monetize their videos

PSA: if a user habitually boosts stuff you don't want to see, you can turn off boosts just for them without unfollowing them

view their profile in the regular masto UI and you'll see a "Hide boosts from X" in the hamburger menu

this can make the whole experience a lot less annoying, but it's not well-known!

what do i have to do to get everyone to start #blogging again instead of making threads?

My best friend and I have a routine where I text her links and messages throughout the day and she works a much more focused job so she responds to like 15 different things all at once when she gets off work, and I gotta say if you have the confidence to make it work asynchronous friendship is pretty dope

"I'm going to die some day, and it will most likely happen while contemplating exactly where we went wrong as a species while reviewing somebody's code."

#watercolor

Scott Pruitt, the current head of the Environmental Protection Agency, has "spent $105,000 on first-class flights in his first year in the job," and "pulled a group of EPA staff from investigating environmental crimes to become his 24-hour security accompaniment." He has also "spent more than $50,000 on sweeping his office for listening bugs, installing biometric locks and constructing a soundproof booth in which to take and receive calls."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/apr/07/epa-scott-pruitt-criticism-environment

slowly coming to the conclusion that most of the time when people say "I like $LANG because it makes it really easy to do $X" what they actually mean is "I like $LANG because it makes easy to get motivated to do $X"

#Google removes #Kodi from search autocomplete in anti-piracy effort - the article state "But, while Kodi is legal software, it remains a space that enables piracy, akin to platforms like BitTorrent."... Yes, like any general purpose computer. 🙄 https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/29/17176894/google-removes-kodi-search-autocomplete-anti-piracy

Yo anyone seen Larry Ellison's horcruxes? Asking for a friend who is literally everyone in software development.

@sireebob ᴀᴀᴀᴀᴀᴀᴀᴀᴀᴀ

eager consumers lap up obviously bullshit promises about games that will give them everything they want, and get suckered every time. Why? Because they want to believe it. They want games to be more than just fun diversions, they want them to be something they can sublimate into.